What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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