One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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 sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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