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 CEZANNEUnder this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Everything is about to disappear. You’ve got to hurry up if you still want to see things.
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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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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 must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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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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To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.
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Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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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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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.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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