I allow no one to touch me.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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