It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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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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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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