Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
PAUL CEZANNESee 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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