Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
PAUL CEZANNEIt’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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