If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNERight now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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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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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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