It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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