Paul Cezanne Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Fall, Artist, Thoughtful

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• Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

  Paul Cezanne

  Drawing, Colour, Abstraction

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• I am a pupil of Pissarro.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Pupils

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• Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

  Paul Cezanne

  Earth, Succeed, Course Of Life

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• All my compatriots are asses compared to me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Ego, Ass

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Way, Ifs

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• Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Optics, Study

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• I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Artist, Painting

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Acceptance, Feelings, Sometimes

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• Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

  Paul Cezanne

  Motivational, Art, Lying

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• The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Strong, Experience

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• Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Rivers, Littles

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• To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.

  Paul Cezanne

  Men, Artist, Wish

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• Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Small Numbers, Judging

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• I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Intensity, Richness, Magnificent

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Choices Made, Technique

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• My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Oil, Nervous

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• The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read.

  Paul Cezanne

  Book, Louvre

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• The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Landscape, Clear

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• Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.

  Paul Cezanne

  Heart, Painting, Controlled

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• You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.

  Paul Cezanne

  Ideas, Giving, Youth

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Different, Profession

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• The Louvre is a good book to consult, but it must only be an intermediary. The real and immense study that must be taken up is the manifold picture of nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Nature, Real, Book

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• When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

  Paul Cezanne

  Fire, Burning

  "Cézanne". Book by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, p. 74., 1984.

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• One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Expression, Submissive

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