Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNEUnder this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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