For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations

Quote by Paul Cezanne

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Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it...

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it...

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would...

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would...

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've...

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've...

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

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

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

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place,...

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place,...

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in...

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in...

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

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

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist...

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist...

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

I am a pupil of Pissarro.

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them...

There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them...

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only...

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only...

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.