The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNEGenius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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