Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNEIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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