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 CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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