Pure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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I want to die painting.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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