I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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 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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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