When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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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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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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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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