A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
PAUL CEZANNEIt’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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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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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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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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