People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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 have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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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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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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