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.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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