Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNELiterature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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