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.
PAUL CEZANNENature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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