I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNEAll pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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