Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNEI 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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