With an apple I will astonish Paris.
PAUL CEZANNEDon’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Under 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.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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 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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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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I allow no one to touch me.
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