Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNEI cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Treat 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.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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