When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
PAUL CEZANNETreat 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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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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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Painting, 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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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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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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