Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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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.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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