People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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