The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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 have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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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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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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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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