Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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