Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
PAUL CEZANNELight is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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There is no model, there is only color.
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I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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