Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNEIt took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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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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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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I want to die painting.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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