Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Pure 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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