There is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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