The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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