Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I am a pupil of Pissarro.
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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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I want to die painting.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.