Paul Cezanne Quotes - Page 3

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• I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

  Paul Cezanne

  Work, Knowing, Fool

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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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• When I start thinking, all is lost.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, Lost

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

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  Mean, Long, Essentials

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

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  Past, Artist, Add

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

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  Years, Sculpture, Painting

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• Pleasure must be found in study.

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  Study, Pleasure, Found

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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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• The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

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  Artist, Giving, Individuality

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

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  Friendship, Laziness, Sun

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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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  Artist, Thinking, Impossible

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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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• 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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• 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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• The contour eludes me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Elude, Difficulty

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

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  Strong, Block, Artist

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

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  Want, Disappear, Ifs

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• I advance all of my canvas at one time.

  Paul Cezanne

  Canvas, Methodology, One Time

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

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  Color, Achieve, Form

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• Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.

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  Mean, Drawing, Giving

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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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• I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.

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  Sadness, Sunshine, Sky

  "Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 211 in: 'What he told me - III. The Studio', 1991.

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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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• There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

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  Dark, Light, Tone

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