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.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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