It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNEWhoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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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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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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I allow no one to touch me.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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