I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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