Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEGenius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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