If I think, everything is lost.
PAUL CEZANNEYou have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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I’ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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