Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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