Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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