The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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 sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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