Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEDoubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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 must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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