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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Paul Cezanne

There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Abstraction Color Drawing Nature Pure
I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
PAUL CEZANNE
There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Art Darkness Light Painting Relation Tone
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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Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
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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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
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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Chaos Human Live Myself Photograph Thinking
Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Lost One Liner Start Thinking
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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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Different Modesty Oneself Strength Time
I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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Myself Nature Represent Reproduction
All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Goodness Photograph Studio Willing
Nature is the best instructor.
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Best Instruction Nature One Liner

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

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