Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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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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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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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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