With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNETreat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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