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.
PAUL CEZANNEI want to die painting.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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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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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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 awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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