Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNEMichelangelo 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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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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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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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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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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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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