The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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 thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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