It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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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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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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