An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNEWhoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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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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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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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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