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.
PAUL CEZANNEAll pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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 landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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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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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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 allow no one to touch me.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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