A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Everything 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.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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