We live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEThe world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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