Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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