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 CEZANNEAn 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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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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I want to die painting.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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