To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNEI 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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There is no model, there is only color.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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