Paul Cezanne Quotes

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

Paul Cezanne

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

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• You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

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• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
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• Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
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• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
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• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• 'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
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• My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.

  

  Natalie Martinez
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• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
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• Managers are the most creative people in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • People
  • World
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• The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
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• The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

  

  Dana Snyder
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• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

  Samuel Butler
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• Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.

  

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• Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Politics
  • Easy
  • Gossip

• Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.

  

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• The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

  

  Philip Guston
  • Mind
  • Painting
  • Magic

• Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.

  Dito Montiel
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• The real subject of every painting is light.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Light
  • Painting
  • Subject

• It was no more nor less than true. You do things by doing things, not by not doing them. No more crazy upsidedownness, he resolved. Good was better than bad. Good environments are better than bad environments.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • True

• Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

  

  Paul Cezanne
  • Painting