An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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I want to die painting.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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