If I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEI 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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An 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.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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