I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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