It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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