A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNEWith a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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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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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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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