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.
PAUL CEZANNEDesign and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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