When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNETo paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I want to die painting.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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