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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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
PAUL CEZANNE
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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