Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNEI am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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