Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
PAUL CEZANNEGet to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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