I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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 nature.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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 he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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