You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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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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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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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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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