Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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 have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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