With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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 approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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