The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I want to die painting.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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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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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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