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.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I want to die painting.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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