Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen I start thinking, all is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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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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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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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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