Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNENature is the best instructor.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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