Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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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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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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