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 CEZANNEShadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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