Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEPainting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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