If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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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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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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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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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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