Quotes

“I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.” Paul Cezanne

“I paint as if I were Rothschild.” Paul Cezanne

“I want to die painting.” Paul Cezanne

“I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.” Paul Cezanne

“Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?” Paul Cezanne

“Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?” Paul Cezanne

“It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.” Paul Cezanne

“One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.” Paul Cezanne

“Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.” Paul Cezanne

“People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.” Paul Cezanne

“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.” Paul Cezanne

“The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.” Paul Cezanne

“The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.” Paul Cezanne

“The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.” Paul Cezanne

“We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.” Paul Cezanne

“With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.” Paul Cezanne

“A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.” Chanakya

“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.” Chanakya

“Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.” Chanakya

“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” Chanakya

“A man is great by deeds, not by birth.” Chanakya

“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.” Chanakya

“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.” Chanakya

“The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.” Chanakya

“There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.” Chanakya

“The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.” Chanakya

“God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.” Chanakya

“Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.” Chanakya

“Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.” Chanakya

“The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.” Chanakya