It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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