The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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