Paul Cezanne Quotes - Page 6

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• 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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Understanding, Progress

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• A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Inches, Painter

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• One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Horror, Good Things

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• The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Giving, Vision, Originality

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• The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Strong, Experience

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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

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Color, Drawing

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• One must see one's model correctly and experience it in the right way; and furthermore express oneself forcibly and with distinction.

  Paul Cezanne

  Way, Distinction, Models

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Study, Awareness, Surroundings

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• I have sworn to die painting.

  Paul Cezanne

  Painting, Dies

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• Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

  Paul Cezanne

  Generations, Born, Painter

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Light, Color, Feelings

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Artist, Expression

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• I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

  Paul Cezanne

  Grateful, Artist, Intelligent

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• I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.

  Paul Cezanne

  Confidence, Regret, Self

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• In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her.

  Paul Cezanne

  Nature, Eye, Order

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• 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 do all that he may wish.

  Paul Cezanne

  Simple, Wish, May

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• People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Artist, People

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Progress, Achieve

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• I allow no one to touch me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Touch Me

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Birthday, Artist, Age

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• Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Demand, Priesthood

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• Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.

  Paul Cezanne

  Book, Giving, Way

  "Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 68, in: 'What I know or have seen of his life', 1991.

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• I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.

  Paul Cezanne

  Portraiture, Shirts, Fronts

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• The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Nature, Real, Book

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• See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

  Paul Cezanne

  Spheres, Cylinders, Cones

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