Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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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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