With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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