Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
PAUL CEZANNEDesign and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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