Paul Cezanne Quotes - Page 3

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• It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.

  Paul Cezanne

  Years, Sculpture, Painting

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• I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

  Paul Cezanne

  Helping Others, Helping, Conclusion

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Flower, Judging

  "Is Cooking Ever an Art?" by John Mariani, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

  Paul Cezanne

  Past, Artist, Add

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• Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Long, Essentials

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• The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Giving, Individuality

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• All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Men, Wish

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• I want to die painting.

  Paul Cezanne

  Want, Painting, Dies

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• When I start thinking, all is lost.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Lost

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• An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Artist, Feelings

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• The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

  Paul Cezanne

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook". Book by Dorothy Kalins and Michael Anthony (p.221), www.esquire.com. 2013.

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• Pleasure must be found in study.

  Paul Cezanne

  Study, Pleasure, Found

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• The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

  Paul Cezanne

  Friendship, Laziness, Sun

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• All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.

  Paul Cezanne

  Done, Things Done, Studios

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• It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Thinking, Impossible

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• If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

  Paul Cezanne

  Strong, Block, Artist

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• You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

  Paul Cezanne

  Want, Disappear, Ifs

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• I 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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Satisfaction, Sun, Satisfied

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• The contour eludes me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Elude, Difficulty

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• Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

  Paul Cezanne

  Heart, Expression, Express Yourself

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• Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Monet

  Quoted in Douglas Cooper, Claude Monet: An Exhibition of Paintings (1957)

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• There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Color, Brain

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• When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

  Paul Cezanne

  Color, Achieve, Form

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• Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.

  Paul Cezanne

  Originality, Masters, Imitator

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• What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Thinking, Fool

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