It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNE
Pure drawing is an abstraction.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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I want to die painting.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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