Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNEKeep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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