The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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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 cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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