When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEA puny body weakens the soul.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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