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 CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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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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I want to die painting.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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 the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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