An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
PAUL CEZANNEI wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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