People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNEShadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I want to die painting.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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