Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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