Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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I want to die painting.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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