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.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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