Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNEKnowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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