You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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 owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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