Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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 took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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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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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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