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 CEZANNEShadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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