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 CEZANNEPure drawing is an abstraction.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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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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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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Don’t be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
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Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Time and reflection, modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us.
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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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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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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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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
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