Quotes by Paul Cezanne

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

#Paul Cezanne

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

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

#Paul Cezanne

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

#Paul Cezanne

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

#Paul Cezanne

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

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It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

#Paul Cezanne

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

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

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

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

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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your...

#Paul Cezanne