The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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