The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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