It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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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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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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