An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.
Paul CezanneRead
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
Interpretation
Taste is subjective and determines the value of art, which often appeals to a limited audience.
In this quote, Paul Cezanne reflects on the nature of taste in art, suggesting that individual preferences are the ultimate measure of artistic value. He acknowledges the rarity of true taste and points out that art often connects with only a select group of people, highlighting the subjective experience of art appreciation.
In practice
A discussion about art appreciation at a gallery opening could incorporate this quote.
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.
Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works
I taught myself how to draw, and I soon found out it was what I really wanted to do. I didn't think I was going to create any great masterpieces like Rembrandt or Gauguin. I thought comics was a common form of art, and strictly American in my estimation, because America was the home of the common man - and show me the common man that can't do a comic. So comics is an American form of art that anyone can do with a pencil and paper.
People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.
Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.
I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.
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