The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
PAUL CEZANNEI 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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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