Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
PAUL CEZANNEI have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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