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 CEZANNEWhen I start thinking, all is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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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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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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I want to die painting.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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