We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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I want to die painting.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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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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I allow no one to touch me.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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 painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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