I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNEThe sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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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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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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