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 CEZANNESometimes 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I want to die painting.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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 are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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