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.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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 am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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