The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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