I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
PAUL CEZANNEEverything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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