For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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