Pleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEDrawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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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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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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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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