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.
PAUL CEZANNEI am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction.
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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