The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNEWe must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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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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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There is no model, there is only color.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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