I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEA work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Design 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.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I want to die painting.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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