The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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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There is no model, there is only color.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I want to die painting.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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