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 CEZANNEGenius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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