One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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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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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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