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 CEZANNEThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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 day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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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 want to die painting.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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