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 CEZANNETo paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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