black
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When the color achieves richness, the form attains its fullness also.

Paul Cezanne

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.
PAUL CEZANNE

Artist Cylinder Form Nature
Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.
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Company Goodness
Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience.
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Ability Emotion Experience Genius
Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
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Figure Form Himself Learning Nature Painting Simplicity
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Flower God Judgment Myself Object Painting Tree
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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Direction Nature Perspective Plane Point Proper Treat
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.
PAUL CEZANNE
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Beginning Craft End Feeling Objective Principle
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
PAUL CEZANNE

Enough Eyes Need Thinking Yourself
I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
PAUL CEZANNE

Experience Inspirational Paint Wisdom
You have no idea how life-giving it is to find around one a youth that agrees not to bury one on the spot.
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Bury Generosity Ideas Life Oneself Youth
Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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Art Eyes Material Optics Ourselves Thinking
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
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Art Artist Himself Personality Seduce
If I think, everything is lost.
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Lost Myself One Liner Think
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.
PAUL CEZANNE

Art Artist Choice Combination Depend Fiction Painting Technique
Painting is damned difficult – you always think you’ve got it, but you haven’t.
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Difficult Paint Thinking Yourself

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