Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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I want to die painting.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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