The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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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I want to die painting.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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