When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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