The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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