Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEAn art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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