People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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