Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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