The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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