Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNEAn 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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 a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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