You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEWith a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Nature is the best instructor.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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I want to die painting.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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