It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNETreat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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 allow no one to touch me.
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