Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNE
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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