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.
PAUL CEZANNEI wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Drawing 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.
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I want to die painting.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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 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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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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