The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNEI’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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I want to die painting.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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