Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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