When I start thinking, all is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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