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.
PAUL CEZANNEI 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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