To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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