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 CEZANNEThere is no model, there is only color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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