Pleasure must be found in study.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no model, there is only color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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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A puny body weakens the soul.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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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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