All the theories mess you up inside.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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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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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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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’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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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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