I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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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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Painting, 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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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 have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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