Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNEAll pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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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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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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