Paul Cezanne Quotes

Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.

Time puts things in proper perspective.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I guess you could say I have grown up, matured. I have seen a lot, and I guess that probably sums it up.

I learned from my past.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I think I've got wiser.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

The years teach much which the days never know.

I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.