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.
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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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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I want to die painting.
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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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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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