You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEThe day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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I want to die painting.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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