A puny body weakens the soul.
PAUL CEZANNEI 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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