Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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