Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNEDon’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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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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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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