All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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