It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNEI have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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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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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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 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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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