A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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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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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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