Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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 truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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I want to die painting.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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