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.
PAUL CEZANNEI want to die painting.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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