People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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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 am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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