We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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