It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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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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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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 truth is in nature, and I shall prove 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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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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I want to die painting.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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