To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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