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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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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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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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Talks on art are almost useless. The work which goes to bring progress in one's own subject is sufficient compensation for the incomprehension of imbeciles.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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You must think. The eye is not enough it needs to think as well.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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The contour eludes me.
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Drawing and color are not separate at all in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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If I think, I am lost.
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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
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An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
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I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.
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All my compatriots are asses compared to me.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.
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