It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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 no model, there is only color.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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