I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEWhat I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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