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.
PAUL CEZANNEWe live in a rainbow of chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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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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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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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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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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