When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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