I want to die painting.
PAUL CEZANNENature is the best instructor.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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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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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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