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

  Paul Cezanne

  Alive, Painting

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• We live in a rainbow of chaos.

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  Love, Dream, Rainbow

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

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

  Paul Cezanne

  Eye, Thinking, Needs

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

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  Spheres, Cylinders, Cones

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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.

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  Artist, Years, Stopping

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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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• Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

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  Art, Nature, Environment

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

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  Emotional, Genius, Ability

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• Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.

  Paul Cezanne

  Rain, Portraits, Fading

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• Nature is the best instructor.

  Paul Cezanne

  Education, Instructors

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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.

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  Inspirational, Beautiful, Color

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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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• Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.

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  Expression, Roots, Depth

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• If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Soul, Veils

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• Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.

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  Art, Fall, Giving

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• The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

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  Thinking, Landscape, Consciousness

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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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