I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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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 have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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There is no model, there is only color.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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I want to die painting.
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