Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNEThe artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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