There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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