Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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