You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNEThe truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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