Pleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I want to die painting.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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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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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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