It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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 want to die painting.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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