Pleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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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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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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