Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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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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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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