I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
PAUL CEZANNEThe most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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