Paul Cezanne Quotes

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• Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
• 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,…
• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
• The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
• For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
• We live in a rainbow of chaos.
• Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
• If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
• Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
• There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
• I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
• The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
• A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
• The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
• An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
• Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
• Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
• I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
• Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
• The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

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