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One Quotes by Paul Cezanne
- Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
- Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
- I allow no one to touch me.
- One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
- 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…
- All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention…
- 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…
- One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
- You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
- Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory…
- 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…
- The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.
- When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!
- I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass…
- One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above…
- Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am…
- I advance all of my canvas at one time.
- One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.
- One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art -…
- Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
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