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Paul Cezanne Inspirational Quotes (85)

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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms and the progress needed is incessant.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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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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I want to die painting.
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Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
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It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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The contour eludes me.
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Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
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It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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