If I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEWhoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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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 no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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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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There is no model, there is only color.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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