There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNENature is the best instructor.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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