It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNEIt’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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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