Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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