Paul Cezanne Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.”
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“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.”
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“The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.”
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“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
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“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
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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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“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.”
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“I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.”
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“Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.”
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“Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.”
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“It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
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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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“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
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“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
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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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“All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.”
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“Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.”
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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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“It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too”
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“You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.”
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“Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.”
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“All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.”
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“Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.”
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“Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.”
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“Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.”
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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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“The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.”
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