I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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Nature is the best instructor.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I want to die painting.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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