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 CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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