It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNEWith a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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I want to die painting.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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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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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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