Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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