For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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There is no model, there is only color.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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