When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEYou must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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