Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
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Quotes by Paul Cezanne
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.
A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
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