There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNEI must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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 wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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