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 CEZANNEEverything 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.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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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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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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I want to die painting.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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