Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
PAUL CEZANNEThe sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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I want to die painting.
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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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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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