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Famous Paul Cezanne Quotes
“One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.”
“The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.”
“The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.”
“It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too”
“Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.”
“It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.”
“When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.”
“I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.”
“Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.”
“I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.”
“To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.”
“The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.”
“You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.”
“It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.”
“Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.”
“Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.”
“Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.”
“There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.”