I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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I want to die painting.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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