You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEI am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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