Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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