It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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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 advance all of my canvas at one time.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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