Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
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The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
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Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
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Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.