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Us Quotes by Paul Cezanne
- The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
- Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
- I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
- We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
- Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the…
- Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
- The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious…
- May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into proper perspective so…
- Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory…
- It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
- Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
- An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations.…
- I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.
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