You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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