We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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