Nature is the best instructor.
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools… I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Drawing and color are by no means two different things. As you paint, you draw… When color is at its richest, form is at its fullest.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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