I advance all of my canvas at one time.
PAUL CEZANNEThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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 want to die painting.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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