Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
PAUL CEZANNEDesign 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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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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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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I 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.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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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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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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