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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

Paul Cezanne

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Artist Cylinder Form Nature
There is no model, there is only color.
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Color Model
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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Animate Color Intense Nature Rich
Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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Change Reflection Time Understand
It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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Flow Impossible Thinking Time
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
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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Cylinder Direction Nature Point Prospective Treat
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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Beautiful Formula Memories Nature Ourselves Study
If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Art Brief Define Myself Nature Soul Word
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art Beginning Emotion Work
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
PAUL CEZANNE
Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Art Color Design Draw Rich Separate
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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Artist Construction Fall Greatness Himself Limitation Rival
Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Development Optics Ourselves See Study Teaching
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Aware Modesty Ourselves Strength

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