Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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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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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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I want to die painting.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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