Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNEThe most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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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.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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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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