Paul Cezanne Quotes - Page 4

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• There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.

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  Dark, Light, Tone

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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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  Mean, Drawing, Giving

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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, Peaches, Apricots

  "Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 119 (note 2), in: 'Fumées dans la campagne', 1991.

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• I advance all of my canvas at one time.

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  Canvas, Methodology, One Time

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• Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

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  Artist, Thinking, Mad

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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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  Birthday, Artist, Age

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• You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

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  Art, Eras, Study

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• Here on the edge of the river, the motifs are very plentiful, the same subject seen from a different angle gives a subject for study of the highest interest and so varied that I think I could be occupied for months without changing my place, simply bending a little more to the right or left.

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  Thinking, Rivers, Giving

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• Chatter about art is almost always useless.

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  Art, Useless, Art Is

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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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  Mean, Color, Two

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• I'd like to combine melancholy and sunshine... There's a sadness in Provence which no one has expressed... I'd like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky, like Poussin.

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  Sadness, Sunshine, Sky

  "Joachim Gasquet's Cézanne: A Memoir with Conversations". Book by Joachim Gasquet, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 211 in: 'What he told me - III. The Studio', 1991.

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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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  Artist, Painting, Painter

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• The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our mids from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. Time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.

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  Beautiful, Art, Book

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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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  Art, Color, Design

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• Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?

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  School, Juice, Tradition

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• I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

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  Method, Primitive

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• We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.

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  Beautiful, Artist, Study

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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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  Perspective, Sides, Spheres

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• I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.

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  Ego, Stronger, Opinion

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• If I think, I am lost.

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  Thinking, Lost, Intellect

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• Pure drawing is an abstraction.

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  Drawing, Pure, Abstraction

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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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  Artist, Way, Ifs

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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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  Art, Eye, Thinking

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• I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.

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  Progress, Form, Incessant

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• An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations. So that light does not exist for the painter.

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  Light, Sight, Doe

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