I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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