The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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