For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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