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Painting Quotes by Paul Cezanne
- 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,…
- For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
- Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
- Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
- I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
- I have sworn to die painting.
- I want to die painting.
- The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
- It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
- 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…
- 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…
- The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so…
- It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture....
- There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
- I wish to die painting.
- Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
- My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.
- I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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- If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye. — Honore de Balzac
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