It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I want to die painting.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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