Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
PAUL CEZANNEThere is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.
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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform.
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Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
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People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.
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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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It took me 40 years to find out that painting is not sculpture.
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The landscape becomes human, becomes a thinking, living being within me. I become one with my picture…we merge in an iridescent chaos.
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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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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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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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I wished to copy nature. I could not. But I was satisfied when I discovered the sun, for instance, could not be reproduced, but only represented by something else.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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