Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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