To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNERight now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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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.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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