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.
PAUL CEZANNEWhat 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.
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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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 must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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I 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.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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