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.
PAUL CEZANNEA work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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I want to die painting.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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