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 CEZANNEDoubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The world doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand the world, that’s why I’ve withdrawn from it.
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I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.
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Long live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
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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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The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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Whoever the master is whom you prefer, this must only be a directive for you. Otherwise you will never be anything but an imitator.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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