I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNETreat 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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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 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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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