A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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