We live in a rainbow of chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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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.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I want to die painting.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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I 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.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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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.
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