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.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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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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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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