You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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