There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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