Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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I want to die painting.
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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