The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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.
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