Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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