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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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
PAUL CEZANNE
To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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