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.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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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 sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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