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.
PAUL CEZANNEOne does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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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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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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Nature is the best instructor.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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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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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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Right now a moment of time is passing by! We must become that moment.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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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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What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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