There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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