Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
PAUL CEZANNEI allow no one to touch me.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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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 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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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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