Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNEThe sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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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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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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