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.
PAUL CEZANNEThere are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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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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