It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
PAUL CEZANNEWith an apple I will astonish Paris.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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