For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEYou say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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