I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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