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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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Pleasure must be found in study.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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There is no model, there is only color.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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