“Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.” LightColor Author: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 its fullest.” MeanTwoDifferentFormColorDrawsPaintDrawingDifferent ThingsTwo Different Things Author:Paul Cezanne
“I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.” ArtistColorMagnificentRichness Author:Paul Cezanne
“When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.” FormAchieveColorFullnessRichness Author:Paul Cezanne
“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.” ShouldArtBrainColorLogicPainterConform Author:Paul Cezanne
“It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.” FeelingsLightColorAmountSufficientIntroducingVibrationsAiry Author: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 drawing becomes. When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also” ArtFormAchieveColorDrawsPaintDrawingFullnessRichness Author: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. When color is at it's richest, form is at its fullest.” ArtFormDesignColorDrawsPaint Author:Paul Cezanne
“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.” IfsIdeasSometimesReasonImagineColorPureCommunicateSurfaceRainbowDeep Down Author:Paul Cezanne
“Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.” InspirationalGivingLongBeautifulSunColorBeautiful Colors Author:Paul Cezanne
“Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory of colour. This is what a picture should give us ... an abyss in which the eye is lost, a secret germination, a coloured state of grace ... loose conciousness. Descend with the painter into the dim tangled roots of things, and rise again from them in colours, be steeped in the light of them.” ThinkingGivingShouldStatesLightEyeLostWaitingSecretGraceColorGloryRootsPainterColourAbyssTangled Author:Paul Cezanne
