With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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