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 CEZANNEDoubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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