You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNETell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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