My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Paul Cezanne
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About Paul Cezanne
Paul Cézanne was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century and formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and early 20th-century Cubism.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Paul CezanneA work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing one's sensations.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
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.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.