It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNERight now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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 is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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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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