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.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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