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.
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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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