It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNELiterature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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