All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
PAUL CEZANNEWe must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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