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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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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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 want to die painting.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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