The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
PAUL CEZANNEPleasure must be found in study.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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