The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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If I think, everything is lost.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with 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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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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