Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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.
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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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