You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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 landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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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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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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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.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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