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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.

Paul Cezanne

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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Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
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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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Difference Finding Painting Sculpture Time
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Color Draw Expression Literature Painting Perception Sensation Style
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNE
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
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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Artist Color Different Draw Form Rich Yourself
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Age Comfortable Conquer Finding Ourselves Prayer Religion
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself

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