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.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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