Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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