It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNE
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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