Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNEI want to die painting.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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