Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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