I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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I want to die painting.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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