I wished to copy nature but I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered that the sun could not be reproduced but that it must be represented by something else—colour.
Paul Cézanne Quotes
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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