What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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I want to die painting.
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