The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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 allow no one to touch me.
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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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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.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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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 artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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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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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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