Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNEMonet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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