Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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