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.
PAUL CEZANNEIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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