I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEArt first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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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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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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