To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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