I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
PAUL CEZANNEI cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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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 owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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There is no model, there is only color.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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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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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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 painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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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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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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