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.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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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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I want to die painting.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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