You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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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.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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