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Artist Quotes by Paul Cezanne
- The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
- Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
- Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
- The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
- What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with…
- All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention…
- 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…
- The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so…
- 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…
- Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.
- 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…
- 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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