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.
PAUL CEZANNEThe painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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