Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNESee how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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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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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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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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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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