There is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNESee 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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