What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious, it is entwined in the very roots of being, in the implacable source of sensations.
PAUL CEZANNEThe landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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If I think, everything is lost.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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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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There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
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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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I have not tried to reproduce nature; I have represented it.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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Here, on the river’s verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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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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For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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