Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
PAUL CEZANNEThe truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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I am progressing very slowly, for nature reveals herself to me in very complex forms; and the progress needed is incessant.
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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.
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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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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Nature is more depth than surface, the colours are the expressions on the surface of this depth; they rise up from the roots of the world.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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