You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
PAUL CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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