Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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