I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
PAUL CEZANNEDrawing 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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