The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNEUnder 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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