The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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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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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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