For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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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 ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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