It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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