Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNEWe live in a rainbow of chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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I 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.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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