It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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 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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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