When I start thinking, all is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEGenius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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, 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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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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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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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