The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEI must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I want to die painting.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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