Pleasure must be found in study.
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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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