See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
PAUL CEZANNEWith a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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