Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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