Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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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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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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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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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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