I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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