The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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