There is no model, there is only color.
PAUL CEZANNEPainting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.
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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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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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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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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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A puny body weakens the soul.
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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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Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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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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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.
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You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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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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If I think, everything is lost.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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