For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEAn art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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