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 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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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