One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNEWith a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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