You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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I want to die painting.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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