Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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