It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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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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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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