It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
PAUL CEZANNEIf I think, everything is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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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.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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