When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEThe sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I 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.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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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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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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