We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Paul Cezanne
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
rest art
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
nature
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
content nature
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
emotions thetimes time
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
emotions ability experience
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
age religion
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
age
I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
help
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
the-public
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
light
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
work system
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