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.
PAUL CEZANNELong live the sun which gives us such beautiful color.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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With a painter’s temperament, all that’s needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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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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The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.
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I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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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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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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