I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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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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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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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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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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