It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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I want to die painting.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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