Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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