I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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