If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEArt first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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