I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNEI 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.
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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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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