I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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