We live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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