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Painter Quotes by Paul Cezanne
- There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
- A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
- The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
- With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
- 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.
- Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory…
- Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
- 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.…
- The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.
- The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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