I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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