Artist Quotes - Page 20

• If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

  Paul Cezanne

  Strong, Block, Isolation

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• A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

  Paul Cezanne

  Inches, Painter, Thousand

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• An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Feelings

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Birthday, Age, Realizing

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• The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

  Paul Cezanne

  World, Understand Me

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• My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

  Paul Cezanne

  Birthday, Dream, Art

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

  Paul Cezanne

  Oil, Nervous, Nervous System

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• People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

  Paul Cezanne

  Thinking, People, Soul

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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

  Way, Ifs, Successors

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• I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Color, Richness, Magnificent

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• I paint as if I were Rothschild.

  Paul Cezanne

  Rothschild, Paint, Ifs

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• I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

  Paul Cezanne

  Grateful, Intelligent, Be Grateful

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• Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Demand, Priesthood

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

  Paul Cezanne

  Optics, Study, Teach

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

  Paul Cezanne

  Landscape, Clear, Verses

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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.

  Paul Cezanne

  Mean, Expression, Painter

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• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, Sometimes, Violent

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• I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

  Tracy Chapman

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  "A militant mellows". Interview with Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2002.

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• Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Art, Writing, Thinking

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• Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

  Kenny Chesney

  Radio, Young, Concerned

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• I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.

  Margaret Cho

  Dog, Husband, Three

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• I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

  Margaret Cho

  Fun, People, Different

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• To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Effort, Soul, Succeed

  Kate Chopin (2014). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

  Amy Chua

  Mother, Fashion, School

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• As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Heart, Soul, Feels

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