I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNEI am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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