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Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
Paul Cezanne
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Paul Cezanne
Age: 67 †
Born: 1839
Born: January 19
Died: 1906
Died: October 23
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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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Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...Give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
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Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand.
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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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If I think, I am lost.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.
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I wish to die painting.
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See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
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