When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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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