When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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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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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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