You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
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 are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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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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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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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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I want to die painting.
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