I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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