If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
PAUL CEZANNEThe truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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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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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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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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