Paul Cezanne Quotes

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Emotion

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• We live in a rainbow of chaos.

  Paul Cezanne

  Love, Dream, Rainbow

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• Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

  Paul Cezanne

  Passing By, Moments, That Moment

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• Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

  Paul Cezanne

  Want, Disappear, Stills

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• It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

  Paul Cezanne

  Alive, Painting

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• Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Copying, Painting

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• Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.

  Paul Cezanne

  Light, Color

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• You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Thinking, Needs

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Feelings, Technique

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• To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

  Paul Cezanne

  Relationship, Harmony, Paint

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• The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

  Paul Cezanne

  Truth Is, Prove It, Prove

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• Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

  Paul Cezanne

  Spheres, Cylinders, Cones

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• Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Nature, Environment

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• Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

  Paul Cezanne

  Emotional, Genius, Ability

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• I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Years, Stopping

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• Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

  Paul Cezanne

  Color, Ideas, Rainbow

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• Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

  Paul Cezanne

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Color

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• The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Personality, Seductive

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• All the theories mess you up inside.

  Paul Cezanne

  Theory, Mess

  "Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 206 in: 'What he told me - III. The Studio', 1991.

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• It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Canvas, Blank

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• Nature is the best instructor.

  Paul Cezanne

  Education, Instructors

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• The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Strength, Awareness, Modest

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• May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point. Lines parallel to the horizon give breadth... lines perpendicular to this horizon give depth. But nature for us men is more depth than surface, whence the need to introduce into our light vibrations, represented by the reds and yellows, a sufficient amount of blueness to give the feel of air.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Mean, Men

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• Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

  Paul Cezanne

  Inspirational, Reflection, Sight

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Roots, Serendipity, Trying

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