We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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