The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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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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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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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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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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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