I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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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 am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I want to die painting.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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