My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNEI want to die painting.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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