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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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.
PAUL CEZANNE
Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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