Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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