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.
PAUL CEZANNEI ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Pleasure must be found in study.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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