Paul Cezanne Quotes

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

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

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process; subject; ideas and feelings; visions and dreams; the words that are put down and the words that are avoided.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then I discovered in photos what had been missing in paintings; namely that they make a terrific variety of statements and have great substance. That is what I wanted to convey to paintings and apply to it.

In the hands of a master, light and shade is one of the great qualities of art.

My whole family is very art-based. My sister runs a gallery, my other sister works for PACE in New York, my other sister is a sculptor. I'd say the ending one is me because that's the artist and the artist feels a lot.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.