Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting, 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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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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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I want to die painting.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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 have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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