I allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNERight now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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