Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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