The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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