I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNEKeep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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 have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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