A puny body weakens the soul.
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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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