A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNEDesign and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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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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