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.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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