It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNEIf isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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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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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I want to die painting.
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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