With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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