An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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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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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 wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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