Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNESee 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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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.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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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