Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEAn art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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 model, there is only color.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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