The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNEUnder this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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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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