It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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