It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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There is no model, there is only color.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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