Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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 takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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 have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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