Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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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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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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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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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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