I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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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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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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