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 CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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