With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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