The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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