Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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