Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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We live in a rainbow of 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.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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