Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEThe most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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