Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNEDrawing 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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