Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNEIt is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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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