I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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