Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNEIt’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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