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.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen I start thinking, all is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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