The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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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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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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