Pleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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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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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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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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