Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
PAUL CEZANNE
You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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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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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.
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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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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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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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I owe you the truth in painting, and I will tell it to you.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
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See how the light tenderly love the apricots, it takes them over completely, enters into their pulp, light them from all sides! But it is miserly with the peaches and light only one side of them.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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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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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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It is not about painting life, it is about making the painting alive.
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