With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNETo paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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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.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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