A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNEThe day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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