One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
PAUL CEZANNEOptics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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 light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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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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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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