Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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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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