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.
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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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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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.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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