I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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