Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.
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It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too
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An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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All my compatriots are asses compared to me.
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Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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