The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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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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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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See 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.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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