The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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See 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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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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