The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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