There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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I want to die painting.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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