You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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