Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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