For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
PAUL CEZANNE
When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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