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Famous Paul Cezanne Quotes
“See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.”
“Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.”
“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
“If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.”
“Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.”
“There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.”
“I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.”
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
“A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.”
“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”
“It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
“My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.”
“My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.”
“People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.”
“Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.”
“I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.”
“I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.”
“I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.”
“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?”