Paul Cezanne Color Quotations

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

It is necessary to introduce light vibrations, represented by reds and yellows, and a sufficient amount of blues, to obtain an airy feeling.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is no model, there is only color.

Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else - by color.