You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEEverything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNEI have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
PAUL CEZANNEMichelangelo 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 CEZANNEIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
PAUL CEZANNENature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNESometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
PAUL CEZANNEHere, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
PAUL CEZANNERight now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
PAUL CEZANNEKeep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
PAUL CEZANNEIt’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNESee how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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