Art Quote by Paul Cezanne

“One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.” quote by Paul Cezanne — Download Open image

“One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.”

Paul Cezanne

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An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

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I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.

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A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

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Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

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All the theories mess you up inside.

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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

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