What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEFor an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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