Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
PAUL CEZANNELiterature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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