We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNEChatter about art is almost always useless.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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