When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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