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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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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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.
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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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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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I want to die painting.
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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