I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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