It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNEThe approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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 thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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