I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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