Pure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNEThe world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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