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.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no model, there is only color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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