There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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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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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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