I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
PAUL CEZANNEMichelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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There is no model, there is only color.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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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