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.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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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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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all.
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I allow no one to touch me.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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