People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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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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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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