Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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