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.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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