Paul Cézanne quotes - page 3

Here you are, put this somewhere, on your work table. You must always have this before your eyes... It's a new order of painting. Our Renaissance starts here... There's a pictorial truth in things. This rose and this white lead us to it by a path hitherto unknown to our sensibility.. (Paul Cézanne)
He (the painter Manet) hits of the tone.... but his work lacks unity and temperament too. View quote
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Art has a harmony which parallels that of nature. The people who tell you that the artist is always inferior to nature are idiots! He is parallel to it. Unless, of course, he deliberately intervenes. His whole aim must be silence. He must silence all the voices of prejudice within him, he must forget... And then the entire landscape will engrave itself on the sensitive plate of his being. View quote
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I paint as if I were Rothschild. View quote
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. View quote
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature. View quote
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With an apple I will astonish Paris. View quote
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. View quote
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. View quote
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones. View quote
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Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre. (Paul Cézanne)
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all. View quote
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. View quote
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. View quote
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Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation. View quote
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. View quote
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing. View quote
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away. View quote
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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. View quote
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see. View quote
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link. (Paul Cézanne)
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me. View quote
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I allow no one to touch me. View quote
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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. View quote
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A puny body weakens the soul. View quote
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