The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
PAUL CEZANNEShadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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