Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
PAUL CEZANNEI advance all of my canvas at one time.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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 must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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