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.
PAUL CEZANNEYou say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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 cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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