I want to die painting.
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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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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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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