When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEIf 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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