I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Design 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.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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