I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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