The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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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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