Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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