There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
PAUL CEZANNEAll the theories mess you up inside.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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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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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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