It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
PAUL CEZANNEKeep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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