I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNEI am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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When I start thinking, all 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 most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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