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.
PAUL CEZANNEOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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.
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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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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 am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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