Chatter about art is almost always useless.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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There is no model, there is only color.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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