Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen I start thinking, all is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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