Pleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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