Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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I allow no one to touch me.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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Design 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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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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