It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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