It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNERight now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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