Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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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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All the theories mess you up inside.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I want to die painting.
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Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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