Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
PAUL CEZANNE
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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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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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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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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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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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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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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