All the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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 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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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