You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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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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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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It is impossible for emotion not to come on us in thinking of that time now flowed away.
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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.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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