Monet is only an eye, but my God, what an eye!
PAUL CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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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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All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside.
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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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The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one’s own strength makes one modest.
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Nature is the best instructor.
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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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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.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.
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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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The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.
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If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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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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