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.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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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.
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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