I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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