You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEThe day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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