Paul Cézanne Short Quotes

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Painting from nature is not copying the object, it is realizing sensations.

Paul Cézanne
I progress very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex ways.

Paul Cézanne
To my mind one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

Paul Cézanne
He (the painter Manet) hits of the tone.... but his work lacks unity and temperament too.

Paul Cézanne
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.

Paul Cézanne
I saw Monet and Renoir at about the end of December; they had been on holiday in Genoa, in Italy.

Paul Cézanne
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed [in a painting], will set off a revolution.

Paul Cézanne
Taste is the best judge, but it is rare. Art is accessible only to a very small number of individuals.

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I've ripped it to pieces; your portrait, you know. I tried to work on it this morning, but it went from bad to worse, so I destroyed it...

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Everybody's going crazy over the Impressionists; what art needs is a Poussin made over according to nature. There you have it in a nutshell.

Paul Cézanne
I was very pleased with myself when I discovered that sunlight could not be reproduced; it had to be represented by something else.... by colour.

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As a painter I am beginning to see more clearly how to work from Nature... But I still can't do justice to the intensity unfolding before my eyes.

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I have never wanted and never will accept the lack of modeling or gradation: it's an absurdity. Gauguin was not a painter; he only made Chinese pictures.

Paul Cézanne
Don't you think your Corot [to Guilemet the painter] is a little short on temperament? I'm painting a portrait of Vallabreque; the highlight on the nose is pure vermilion.

Paul Cézanne
See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.

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