Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEA work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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