The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNE
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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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