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.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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