The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNEHere, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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 I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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