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 CEZANNEArt first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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