Pure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNEPeople think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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