I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEWhat 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I want to die painting.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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