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.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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I want to die painting.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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