Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNEThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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