I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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