Abstraction Quote by Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

— Paul Cezanne

Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw... When color is at its richest, form is at…

— Paul Cezanne

Drawing and color are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The more color harmonizes, the more exact the…

— Paul Cezanne

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form.…

— Paul Cezanne

Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.

— Henri Matisse

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

— Pierre Bonnard

Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake…

— John French Sloan

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

— Pierre Bonnard

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

— Hans Werner Henze

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.

— Henri Matisse

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

— John French Sloan

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles…

— Eugene Delacroix