Paul Cezanne Quotes About Painting
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Personally I would like to have pupils, a studio, pass on my love to them, work with them, without teaching them anything.. ..A convent, a monastery, a phalanstery of painting where one could train together.. ..but no programme, no instruction in painting.. ..drawing is still alright, it doesn't count, but painting - the way to learn is to look at the masters, above all at nature, and to watch other people painting.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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My nervous system is very much weakened - nothing but painting in oil can keep me going.
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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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Yes, a bunch of carrots, observed directly, painted simply in the personal way one sees it, worth more than the Ecole's everlasting slices of buttered bread, that tobacco-juice painting, slavishly done by the book? The day is coming when a single original carrot will give birth to a revolution.
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I have sworn to die painting.
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I wish to die painting.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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 often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.
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Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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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 entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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I want to die painting.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
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