The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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