The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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I 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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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 am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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