It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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If I think, everything is lost.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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