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 CEZANNEPainting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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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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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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