I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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