With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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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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I want to die painting.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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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