The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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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 am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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