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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

Paul Cezanne

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Blank Empty Fine Stand Terrible
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Impression Nature Paint Realization Sensation Subject
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art Harmony Nature Parallel
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
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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Age Destroy Hard Illusion Myself Realization Sensible Willing
My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
All the theories mess you up inside.
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Mess Theory Yourself
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Art Talk Wasted Time
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Art Eyes God Myself
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Harmony Object Paint Relationship
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Alone Color Confirm Logic Myself Painting
I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Myself Paint Truth Yourself
I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Advance Canvas Myself Time
Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Ourselves Reflection Time Vision
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Mad Thinking Time Wonder Yourself
Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Color Light Representation Reproduction
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNE

Block Isolation Strong Uncertain

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