Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I want to die painting.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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