I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNE
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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