Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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