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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.

Paul Cezanne

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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Art Artist Different Goodness Professional
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Add Link Oneself Past Substitute
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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Discover Myself Nature Representation Reproduction Satisfaction Sun
I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Invention Method Myself
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
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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Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Nature Object Oneself Paint Realization Sensation
Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Myself Nervous Oil Sustain System Work
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Block Isolation Strong Uncertain
I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Gratitude Intelligence Myself
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
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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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
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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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Brilliant Color Light Shadow Tone
Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Disappear Hurry See Yourself
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Appearance Hurry See Yourself
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Himself Painting Word Work

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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