We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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