Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
PAUL CEZANNEI could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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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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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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