We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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I want to die painting.
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