For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations. - Paul Cezanne - Quotesmemo.com

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A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

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Paul Cezanne

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

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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools. . . I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.

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

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

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See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.

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The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

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