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.
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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 CEZANNEThere is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
PAUL CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEI am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNEI cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEMichelangelo 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.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNEGenius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNELong live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNEThe approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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