Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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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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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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