See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen I start thinking, all is lost.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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If I think, everything is lost.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really possible to help others.
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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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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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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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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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