I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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 the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I want to die painting.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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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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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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