Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
PAUL CEZANNEDoubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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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