With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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 puny body weakens the soul.
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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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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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