Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
PAUL CEZANNEYou say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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