I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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 have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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