There is no model, there is only color.
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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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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Drawing 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.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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