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.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Everything 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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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