An 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.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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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 sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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