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.
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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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