Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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