It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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