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.
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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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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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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