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Paul Cezanne Inspirational Quotes (85)

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I have not tried to reproduce nature I have represented it.
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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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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
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I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
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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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Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.
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You must think. The eye is not enough it needs to think as well.
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The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
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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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To achieve progress nature alone counts, and the eye is trained through contact with her. It becomes concentric by looking and working.
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Drawing and color are not separate at all in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also
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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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