The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEThe world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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