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.
PAUL CEZANNEThe approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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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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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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