It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEIt’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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