People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNEWhat I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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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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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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