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.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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