The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
PAUL CEZANNETime and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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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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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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