My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
PAUL CEZANNEWhat 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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