The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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 am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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