Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNEThe world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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