Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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 painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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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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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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