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.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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I want to die painting.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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