The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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I want to die painting.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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