You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen I start thinking, all is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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I 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.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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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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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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