It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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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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