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.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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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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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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 must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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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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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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