There is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNEI am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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