The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
PAUL CEZANNEKeep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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