You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNERight now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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I want to die painting.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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