I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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I want to die painting.
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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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