It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEWhat is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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I want to die painting.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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 start thinking, all is lost.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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