I allow no one to touch me.
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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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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I want to die painting.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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