Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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