The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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