It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNEArt first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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