There is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNEI owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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I want to die 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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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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